Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 89
Dorse (n.) The back of a book. [Obs.]
Books, all richly bound, with gilt dorses. -- Wood.
Dorse (n.) (Zool.) The Baltic or variable cod ({Gadus callarias), by some believed to be the young of the common codfish.
Dorsel (n.) A pannier.
Dorsel (n.) Same as Dorsal, n.
Dorser (n.) See Dosser.
Dosser (n.) A pannier, or basket.
To hire a ripper's mare, and buy new dossers. -- Beau. &
Fl.
Dosser (n.) A hanging tapestry;
a dorsal.
Dorsibranchiata (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of chaetopod annelids in which the branchi[ae] are along the back, on each side, or on the parapodia. [See Illusts. under Annelida and Ch[ae]topoda.]
Dorsibranchiate (a.) (Zool.) Having branchi[ae] along the back; belonging to the Dorsibranchiata.
Dorsibranchiate (n.) One of the Dorsibranchiata.
Dorsiferous () (Biol.) Bearing, or producing, on the back; -- applied to ferns which produce seeds on the back of the leaf, and to certain Batrachia, the ova of which become attached to the skin of the back of the parent, where they develop; dorsiparous.
Dorsimeson (n.) (Anat.) See Meson.
Dorsiparous (a.) (Biol.) Same as Dorsiferous.
Dorsiventral (a.) (Biol.) Having distinct upper and lower surfaces, as most common leaves. The leaves of the iris are not dorsiventral.
Dorsiventral (a.) (Anat.) See Dorsoventral.
Dorsoventral (a.) From the dorsal to the ventral side of an animal; as, the dorsoventral axis.
Dorsoventral (a.) Extending from the back to the belly.
Dorsum (n.) The ridge of a hill.
Dorsum (n.) (Anat.) The back or dorsal region of an animal; the upper side of an appendage or part; as, the dorsum of the tongue.
Dortour (n.) Alt. of Dorture.
Dorture (n.) A dormitory.
Dories (n. pl. ) of Dory.
Dory (n.) A European fish. See Doree, and John Doree.
Dory (n.) The American wall-eyed perch; -- called also dore. See Pike perch.
Dories (n. pl. ) of Dory.
Dory (n.) A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.
Doryphora (n.) A genus of plant-eating beetles, including the potato beetle. See Potato beetle.
Doryphoros (n.) A spear bearer; a statue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us.
Dose (n.) The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.
Dose (n.) A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive.
Dose (n.) Anything nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one.
Dosed (imp. & p. p.) of Dose.
dosing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dose.
Dose (n.) To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.
Dose (n.) To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need.
Dose (n.) To give anything nauseous to.
Dosel (n.) Same as Dorsal, n.
Dosology (n.) Posology.
Dossel (n.) Same as Dorsal, n.
Dosser (n.) A pannier, or basket.
Dosser (n.) A hanging tapestry; a dorsal.
Dossil (n.) A small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent.
Dossil (n.) A roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines.
Dost (2d pers. sing. pres.) of Do.
Dot (n.) A marriage portion; dowry.
Dot (n.) A small point or spot, made with a pen or other pointed instrument; a speck, or small mark.
Dot (n.) Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen; as, a dot of a child.
Dotted (imp. & p. p.) of Dot.
Dotting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dot.
Dot (v. t.) To mark with dots or small spots; as, to dot a line.
Dot (v. t.) To mark or diversify with small detached objects; as, a landscape dotted with cottages.
Dot (v. i.) To make dots or specks.
Dotage (v. i.) Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage.
Dotage (v. i.) Foolish utterance; drivel.
Dotage (v. i.) Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection.
Dotal (a.) Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it.
Dotant (n.) A dotard.
Dotard (v. i.) One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood.
Dotardly (a.) Foolish; weak.
Dotary (n.) A dotard's weakness; dotage.
Dotation (n.) The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.
Dotation (n.) Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation.
Dote (n.) A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st Dot, n.
Dote (n.) Natural endowments.
Doted (imp. & p. p.) of Dote.
Doting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dote.
Dote (v. i.) To act foolishly.
Dote (v. i.) To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel.
Dote (v. i.) To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to be weakly affectionate; -- with on or upon; as, the mother dotes on her child.
Dote (n.) An imbecile; a dotard.
Doted (a.) Stupid; foolish.
Doted (a.) Half-rotten; as, doted wood.
Dotehead (n.) A dotard.
Doter (n.) One who dotes; a man whose understanding is enfeebled by age; a dotard.
Doter (n.) One excessively fond, or weak in love.
Dotery (n.) The acts or speech of a dotard; drivel.
Doth (3d pers. sing. pres.) of Do.
Doting (a.) That dotes; silly; excessively fond.
Dotish (a.) Foolish; weak; imbecile.
Dottard (n.) An old, decayed tree.
Dotted (a.) Marked with, or made of, dots or small spots; diversified with small, detached objects.
Dotterel (a.) Decayed.
Dotterel (v. i.) A European bird of the Plover family (Eudromias, / Charadrius, morinellus). It is tame and easily taken, and is popularly believed to imitate the movements of the fowler.
Dotterel (v. i.) A silly fellow; a dupe; a gull.
Dotting pen () See under Pun.
Dottrel (n.) See Dotterel.
Doty (a.) Half-rotten; as, doty timber.
Douane (n.) A customhouse.
Douanier (n.) An officer of the French customs.
Douar (n.) A village composed of Arab tents arranged in streets.
Douay Bible () A translation of the Scriptures into the English language for the use of English-speaking Roman Catholics; -- done from the Latin Vulgate by English scholars resident in France.
The New
Testament portion was published at
Doub grass () Doob grass.
Double (a.) [Z] 兩倍的；加倍的；雙的；成雙的；雙層的 Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc.
Let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. -- 2 Kings ii. 9.
Darkness and tempest make a double night. -- Dryden.
Double (a.) Being in pairs; presenting two of a kind, or two in a set together; coupled.
[Let] The swan, on still St. Mary's lake, Float double, swan and shadow. -- Wordsworth.
Double (a.) Divided into two; acting two parts, one openly and the other secretly; equivocal; deceitful; insincere.
With a double heart do they speak. -- Ps. xii. 2.
Double (a.) (Bot.) Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally double.
Note: Double is often used as the first part of a compound word, generally denoting two ways, or twice the number, quantity, force, etc., twofold, or having two.
Double base, or Double bass (Mus.), The largest and lowest-toned instrument in the violin form; the contrabasso or violone.
Double convex. See under Convex.
Double counterpoint (Mus.), That species of counterpoint or composition, in which two of the parts may be inverted, by setting one of them an octave higher or lower.
Double court (Lawn Tennis), A court laid out for four players, two on each side.
Double dagger (Print.), A reference mark ([dag]) next to the dagger ([dagger]) in order; a diesis.
Double drum (Mus.), A large drum that is beaten at both ends.
Double eagle, A gold coin of the United States having the value of 20 dollars.
Double entry. See under Bookkeeping.
Double floor (Arch.), A floor in which binding joists upport flooring joists above and ceiling joists below.
See Illust. of Double-framed floor.
Double flower. See Double, a., 4.
Double-framed floor (Arch.), A double floor having girders into which the binding joists are framed.
Double fugue (Mus.), A fugue on two subjects.
Double letter. (Print.) Two letters on one shank; a ligature.
Double letter. A mail requiring double postage.
Double note (Mus.), A note of double the length of the semibreve; a breve. See Breve.
Double octave (Mus.), An interval composed of two octaves, or fifteen notes, in diatonic progression; a fifteenth.
Double pica. See under Pica.
Double play (Baseball), A play by which two players are put out at the same time.
Double plea (Law), A plea alleging several matters in answer to the declaration, where either of such matters alone would be a sufficient bar to the action. -- Stephen.
Double point (Geom.), A point of a curve at which two branches cross each other. Conjugate or isolated points of a curve are called double points, since they possess most of the properties of double points (see Conjugate). They are also called acnodes, and those points where the branches of the curve really cross are called crunodes.
The extremity of a cusp is also a double point.
Double quarrel. (Eccl. Law) See Duplex querela, under Duplex.
Double refraction. (Opt.) See Refraction.
Double salt. (Chem.) A mixed salt of any polybasic acid which has been saturated by different bases or basic radicals, as the double carbonate of sodium and potassium, NaKCO3.6H2O.
Double salt. (Chem.) A molecular combination of two distinct salts, as common alum, which consists of the sulphate of aluminium, and the sulphate of potassium or ammonium.
Double shuffle, A low, noisy dance.
Double standard (Polit. Econ.), A double standard of monetary values; i. e., a gold standard and a silver standard, both of which are made legal tender.
Double star (Astron.), Two stars so near to each other as to be seen separate only by means of a telescope. Such stars may be only optically near to each other, or may be physically connected so that they revolve round their common center of gravity, and in the latter case are called also binary stars.
Double time (Mil.). Same as Double-quick.
Double window, A window having two sets of glazed sashes with an air space between them.
Double (adv.) 雙倍地；加倍地；雙重地 Twice; doubly.
I was double their age. -- Swift.
Doubled (imp. & p. p.) of Double.
Doubling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Double.
Double (v. t.) To increase by adding an equal number, quantity, length, value, or the like; multiply by two; to double a sum of money; to double a number, or length.
Double six thousand, and then treble that. -- Shak.
Double (v. t.) To make of two thicknesses or folds by turning or bending together in the middle; to fold one part upon another part of; as, to double the leaf of a book, and the like; to clinch, as the fist; -- often followed by up; as, to double up a sheet of paper or cloth. -- Prior.
Then the old man Was wroth, and doubled up his hands. -- Tennyson.
Double (v. t.) To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
Thus re["e]nforced, against the adverse fleet, Still doubling ours, brave Rupert leads the way. -- Dryden.
Double (v. t.) To pass around or by; to march or sail round, so as to reverse the direction of motion.
Sailing along the coast, the doubled the promontory of Carthage. -- Knolles.